Each year, one in four U.S. adults suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder according to the National Institute of Mental Health. When diagnosed, such individuals often are culturally labeled as a ‘mentally ill person,’ which can affect negatively their social and psychological well-being. This may result in a higher rate of unemployment, lower earnings and greater feelings of demoralization.In a recently published Social Psychology Quarterly study, Dr. [click link for full article]

Schools in Indonesia should develop innovative approaches to teaching about HIV/AIDS to help prevent the spread of the disease among youth, executive chair of the Indonesian National Commission for UNESCO, Arief Rachman, said last week, the Jakarta Post reports. [click link for full article]

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and other Roman Catholic politicians who have said they “oppose abortion but do not wish to impose that view on the entire polity have support in Catholic teaching,” and Catholic bishops should “cease harassing” them, Daniel Maguire, a professor of moral theology at Marquette University, writes in a [click link for full article]

Summer is allergy season in many parts of the country, particularly in the colder-climate regions, where grass is begining to pollinate. Once again, like an annual exodus, people are rushing…

Thirty-six years into the war on cancer, scientists have not only failed to come up with a cure, but most of the newer drugs suffer from the same problems as those available in the pre-war days: serious toxicity, limited effectiveness and eventual resistance.This is no surprise to University of California, Berkeley, genetics researcher Peter Duesberg, professor of molecular and cell biology. [click link for full article]

Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag on Thursday at a House Budget Committee hearing said that a reduction of reimbursements to private fee-for-service plans in Medicare Advantage would result in relatively modest savings, CQ HealthBeat reports. [click link for full article]

Andrew Speaker, who triggered a TB scare while traveling to various countries, has a less severe form of Tuberculosis than an initial diagnosis indicated, say authorities. In May, Andrew was diagnosed with a form of TB which is resistant to most medications - XDR-TB. XDR-TB is the most difficult form of TB to treat. Speaker is being treated at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado. [click link for full article]

If you suffer from an allergy, not necessarily a cat allergy, the presence of cats could exacerbate your existing allergy, say researchers from Imperial College London. You do not need to have cats in your house for this to happen, they could live nearby, say the researchers. You can read about this study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. [click link for full article]

The British Medical Association on Wednesday at its annual conference in Torquay, England, voted 189-89 to approve a proposal recommending the United Kingdom eliminate a requirement that women seeking abortions of a fetus of less than 13 weeks’ gestation obtain the signature of two doctors before undergoing a procedure, London’s [click link for full article]

Two people have become infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus strain, according to Vietnam’s Ministry of Health. Vietnam last had a confirmed human infection in November 2005. The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory have also confirmed these latest cases. One is a male, 29 years old, from Vinh Phuc Province. [click link for full article]